Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Academic year 2009/2010

Text-critical editions in TEI

Tomaž Erjavec

Page http://nl.ijs.si/et/teach/graz09/critical last updated 2010-01-13
Summary: This advanced course on using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines will concentrate on encoding old texts, in particular how to include and describe facsimiles in digital editions and how to encode their various transcriptions in TEI, to produce so called text-critical editions. In encoding such editions a number of problems need to be addressed, such as the use of non-standard characters, interlinking of transcriptions, encoding of the text-critical apparatus, crossing hierarchies, etc. The course will introduce the TEI Guidelines Version P5 modules for manuscript description, representation of primary sources, and critical apparatus, as well as relevant elements of other modules, and show how to apply them for use on old texts. Lectures are accompanied by hands-on sessions. The course should enable students to understand, produce, and use TEI encoded texts comprising facsimiles, transcriptions and text-critical apparatus.
Related course: Standards for digital encoding

Timetable "Text-critical editions in TEI" 2009/2010

Week Date Topics Lecture materials Lab session Assignment
1 3/12/09 Manuscript descriptions Making a manuscript description for the Book of Kells
2 11/12/09 Representation of primary sources
3 8/1/10 Critical Apparatus
  • Making a document with apparatus
4 15/1/10 Non-hierarchical Structures
  • Presentation of work by students
  • Concluding remarks

Assesment and Due Dates

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Reading materials

The course materials use the following sources: Thanks to all the people who have put work in preparing the above materias, and special thanks for making them available on the web and allowing others to teach by them!

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